Macroeconomic Volatility and Stock Market Volatility, World-Wide

Francis Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz ()

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Abstract: Notwithstanding its impressive contributions to empirical financial economics, there remains a significant gap in the volatility literature, namely its relative neglect of the connection between macroeconomic fundamentals and asset return volatility. We progress by analyzing a broad international cross section of stock markets covering approximately forty countries. We find a clear link between macroeconomic fundamentals and stock market volatilities, with volatile fundamentals translating into volatile stock markets.

Keywords: Financial market; equity market; asset return; risk; variance; asset pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 G1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2008-08-06
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